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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (10549)	10/19/2009 7:43:45 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

Do we pay doctors too much? Full text via the link, from the current issue of Time... Is There a Better Way to Pay Doctors? By Jeffrey Kluger Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 Cutting Health Care Costs by Putting Doctors on a Budget It's hard to feel sorry for America's family doctors. Any job that averages $179,000 per year and lets you be your own boss is a job most folks wouldn't turn down. With the effort to rein in health-care costs increasingly framed as an unhappy trade-off in which insurers either slash benefits or raise premiums, some in Washington are beginning to ask a question long considered off-limits: Do we simply pay doctors too much? time.com